Top of page
Posted by: Juliette Appold
Let’s look at some new additions to BARD. Next to our most recent music appreciation catalog, we have added flavors from Norway (Grieg), Italy (Pergolesi), Poland (Chopin), France (Ravel and Debussy), and the US (Carole King). There’s more to come, so please keep checking by exploring the link Music Collection and then clicking on Recently …
Posted in: Braille Music, Instrumental Music, NLS Music Section, Piano
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
“Oh, no—opera!” I thought as the recording of Amahl and the Night Visitors started. I was perhaps a fourth grader at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children in Pittsburgh then, hearing this one-act opera for the first time. Although I could not always understand the words, I had to admit that the mother’s operatic …
Posted in: American Composers, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Classical Music, Libretto, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Opera, Vocal music
Posted by: Katie Rodda
John Bischoff was an American composer and organist who worked at the First Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. from 1874 until his death in 1909. Blind since the age of two, Bischoff attended the Wisconsin School for the Blind and later studied singing and organ before moving to Washington, D.C. His obituary from the May …
Posted in: American Composers, Blind Musicians, Blind Teachers, Braille, Braille Music, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, Organ, Piano Music
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
Today is an anniversary of special significance for many U.S. citizens. There have been two previous posts by Katie Rodda about the impact of war on music (Veterans Day and Armistice Day and The Music and Sounds of the Vietnam Era) relating how music affected the era and events. Lasting approximately two hours, the attack …
Posted in: Jazz, Music History and Appreciation, Piano, World War II